https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lebron-james-responds-fox-news-commentator-will-definitely-not-shut-dribble-225904686.html

But the first topic James touched on — and the one to which he devoted most of his attention during his press conference — was Ingraham’s response to a video in which James and Kevin Durant criticized President Donald Trump. In the clip, James said that Trump, elected to “the No. 1 job in America, the appointed person, is someone who doesn’t understand the people and really don’t give a f*** about the people.” Ingraham highlighted the video during Thursday’s episode of her Fox News show, calling James and Durant’s comments “ignorant” and recommending that they “keep the political commentary to yourself, or, as someone once said, ‘Shut up and dribble.'”


[Lebrons response, edited for brevity]

"You know, we live in a — we’re back to everything I’ve been talking about the last few years. So that lets me know that everything I’ve been saying is correct, for her to have that type of reaction. But we will definitely not ‘shut up and dribble.’

“I also wish she would have did a little bit more fact-checking,” James added. “Because I actually did finish high school and didn’t leave early. I graduated high school.”


" it’s important to show others in similar circumstances that it’s possible to “defeat the odds” and engage with a wider world in a broader context."

“And I want every kid to know that, and I want everybody to know — the youth — that they can do it as well,” he said. “And that’s why I will not just shut up and dribble, because I mean too much to my two [sons] here, their best friend right here, my daughter that’s at home, my wife, my family, and all these other kids that look up to me for inspiration and trying to find a way out, and find some leeway on how they can become as great as they can be, and how those dreams can become reality.


“At the center of the [2017 NBA] Finals, my house was vandalized, here in Los Angeles. And now, at the center of All-Star Weekend, the lady said what she said,” James said. “Am I being used as a symbol? I don’t know. But if it brings the greater of good, I’m OK with that. […] I don’t sit up here trying to get a reward for it. I don’t think Muhammad Ali sat up there trying to get a reward for it. I don’t think Jim Brown or Bill Russell or Jackie Robinson, and the list goes on and on, that they sat up there trying to get rewarded for it. I think it’s just — this is just who we are. And we know it’s bigger than us.”



... I have such respect for that young man, I hope he continues contributing in whatever ways he can and trying to remain a positive role model